Talk:Travel in developing countries/archive

So just to avoid Project:Slippery slopes with the Tips lists I made a "Basic travel tools" item in the list. Those don't all need their own explination or introduction and aren't really specific to developing country travel, but they're good to mention here.

I gotta ask-- do people really bring a kettle on a trip? I've always had a hard time finding an power outlet in Asian hotel rooms/hostels, and it sounds like it would take up some space. Is the a common travel accessory?

I would never travel without one. You can get a really neat little job which holds two cups of water. It takes up less space than a bottle of water and you can carry the tea/coffee/sugar in the container as well as the adaptor. I have always been able to find a power outlet, but I don't use hostels. (WT-en) Tiles 17:08, 7 Aug 2003 (PDT)

I was in AMERICA and I wished I'd packed a kettle because hotel rooms only ever have a coffeemaker and I only drink tea! Yes you can use the coffeemaker to boil water, but it inevitably comes out brown unless you rinse it a thousand times first. Ugh... (WT-en) KJ

I think we need a How to survive in the USA article ;-) (WT-en) Majnoona

You can buy electric kettles in the US. :) (WT-en) no soap, radio! 15:22, 30 September 2009 (EDT)

Safe water

I edited out the "Safe Water" link once. It seems to me to violate the external links policy. So someone put it on a separate page and that got a vote for deletion. Now it has reappeared here, along with a second link to another, and for our purposes, useless site. I took that out but have left the "Safe Water" site in, at least until others express an opinion. Comment anyone? (WT-en) Pashley 11:37, 18 June 2006 (EDT)

Checking, I find it wasn't me that took it out last time, but (WT-en) Cjensen, and he linked to the policy. Reading the policy, methinks it should go, so I'll delete it again. (WT-en) Pashley 05:14, 19 June 2006 (EDT)